THIS WAS THE SCENE TWO WEEKS AGO. YOU CAN SEE WHEN WE GET CLOSER HERE. TEENS STREAMING OUT OF LAKE MARY HIGH SCHOOL. FALSE 911 CALL CLAIMED THERE WAS A GUNMAN ON THE LOOSE, CLOSE TO A DOZEN SCHOOLS HAD BEEN PUT ON LOCKDOWN IN THE LAST MONTH. WHILE SCHOOLS ARE REQUIRED TO DRILL AND PLAN FOR THREATS OF VIOLENCE. THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE FOR DAY CARE CENTERS. BUT CHANGES ARE COMING. TONIGHT, ONLY ON 6, ERIK VON ANCKEN SHOWS YOU HOW A NEW PROGRAM COULD AFFECT HOW PARENTS CHOOSE WHICH DAY CARE IS BEST. THIS IS AS PRECIOUS AS IT GETS. LITTLE PEOPLE WHO NEED BIG PEOPLE FOR JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING. THEY CAN'T FEND FOR THEMSELVES AND THEY CERTAINLY CANNOT DEFEND THEMSELVES FROM THIS. GUN, GUN. I GOT IT. I GOT THE GUN. THIS IS A SIMULATED SCENARIO AND THESE ARE INSTRUCTORS. I NEED TEAM TWO, EVERYBODY WITH TEAM TWO FOLLOW ME. MANY OF THEM POLICE OFFICERS. YOU MUST BE AGGRESSIVE. WHO STARTED A LOCAL COMPANY CALLED DEFENSIVE TACTIC SOLUTIONS, ENTIRELY TO PREPARE PEOPLE FOR ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATIONS. GET ON THE GROUND, GETS ON THE GROUND, DO IT NOW. THEY ARE SHOWING DAY CARE WORKERS WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE IF A GUNMAN TARGETED THEIR DAY CARE AND ULTIMATELY WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT. MA SHA TAYLOR, WHO OWNS KID CITY U.S.A. BROUGHT HER ENTIRE STAFF. I THINK EVERY TEACHER NEEDS SOME KIND OF THIS KIND OF TRAINING. YOU JUST -- YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHAT TO DO. KEEP IN MIND, SCHOOLS DEAL WITH SHOOTINGS DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF THE AGE OF THE CHILDREN. KIDS IN SCHOOL CAN LISTEN AND UNDERSTAND. THEY CAN LINE UP AND RUN. BUT BABIES ARE HELPLESS. WE TAKE CARE OF 200 CHILDREN, RESPONSIBLE FOR 200 BABIES THAT BELONG TO PARENTS AND THOSE PARENTS ARE ENTRUSTING THEIR CHILDREN IN OUR CARE SO IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO WHATEVER WE CAN TO PROTECT THEM WHEN THEY ARE WITH US. ARE YOU WITH ME? YES. WITH ME? YES. IF NOTHING ELSE, THISES A THIS IS A WAKEUP CALL TO THE NEW REALITY, ANYPLACE WITH CHILDREN IS A TARGET. KIDS NEED TO KNOW THAT YOU'RE GOING TO PROTECT THEM. I DON'T THINK I WOULD BE VERY SUCCESSFUL AT TAKING THEM DOWN. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, IF THEY ARE AFTER MY BABIES, I AM GOING TO KNOCK THEM SENSELESS. THE INSTRUCTORS BELIEVE MORE AND MORE PARENTS WILL START TO LOOK FOR DAYCARES WITH WORKERS WHO HAVE BEEN TRAINED IN DEFENSIVE TACTICS. THAT'S WHY EVERYBODY AT THE END OF THE CLASS GETS ONE OF THESE. IF THEY CHOOSE, THEY CAN STICK IT IN THEIR DAY CARE WINDOW. ERIK VON ANCKEN, LOCAL 6. AFTER THE CLASS, KID CITY U.S.A. EMPLOYEES TOLD ERIK THEY ARE GOING TO DO ACTIVE SHOOTER DRILLS EVERY MONTH LIKE THEY DO FIRE DRILLS. ALL THE DETAILS ON THE PROGRAM ARE ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, GO TO CLICKORLANDFACEBOOK.COM/LOCAL 6. WHAT I FIND INTERESTING IS JUST HOW SERIOUSLY THEY WERE TAKING THOSE CLASSES. THOSE WOMEN WERE REALLY WORKING HARD. YOU CAN TELL THEY WERE.

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Close to a dozen schools have been put on lockdown in the last month, and while schools are required to drill and plan for threats of violence that's not always the case for day cares.

“I really think every teacher needs some kind of this training, you just have to know what to do,” said Taylor.

Keep in mind, schools deal with shootings differently, because of the age of the children. Kids in school can listen and understand. They can line up and run.

Babies are helpless.

"We take care of 200 children. We are responsible for 200 babies that belong to parents. And those parents are entrusting the children in our care. So it's our responsibility to do whatever we can to protect them when they're with us," said Jennifer Matthews, a director at Ladybird Academy.

"It's a bond we have with the children. They're with us the majority of the day time when they're awake," said Cachea Torres, who also works in a day care.

If nothing else, this drill was a wake-up call to the new reality that any place with children could be a target.

“Those kids need to know that you're going to protect them. They need to know if a bad guy comes in to the school they need to know Ms. Marsha will protect them," said Taylor.

The instructors with Defensive Tactics Solutions believe that more and more parents will start to look for day cares with workers who have been trained in defensive tactics, that's why everybody at the end of the class gets one of these, so they can stick it in their day care window.

After the class, Taylor told Local 6’s Erik Von Ancken that Kid City USA will start doing active-shooter drills every month just like they do fire drills.

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